Theoretical Statistics and Mathematics Unit Seminar

The regular schedule for the seminar is on Wednesdays from 3:30 PM - 4:30 PM at the Seminar Room - 2, New Building.
The seminar series speakers will typically give two talks during the week of their visit. One talk will be scheduled on regular time. The time and venue for the other talk will be posted in advance.
Always the default time is 3:30 PM - 4:30 PM and the venue is Seminar Room - 2, New Building.
Unless otherwise mentioned, tea, coffee, and cake/snacks will be served in the lobby from half-and-hour before a talk starts.

Spring 2009 Schedule

Upcoming Seminars:

Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Title (click for abstract)
April 22	--	--	No Seminar
April 29	Maneesh Thakur	Theoretical Statistics and Mathematics Unit, ISI, Delhi	The Tits-Weiss Conjecture

Past Seminars:

Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Title (click for abstract)
January 7	Kshitij Deepak Khare	Stanford University, USA	Rates of Convergence for Some Classes of Markov Chains with Polynomial Eigenfunctions
January 14	Surya Ramana	Harish-Chandra Research Institute, Allahabad	Spacing Out with Vandermonde
January 20 Day: Tuesday	Mokshay Madiman	Yale University, USA	A New Look at the Compound Poisson Distribution and Compound Poisson Approximation using Entropy
January 28	Antar Bandyopadhyay	Theoretical Staististics and Mathematics Unit, ISI, Delhi	Cluster Size Distribution for Percolation on Some General Graphs
February 3 Day: Tuesday Venue: Conference Hall	S. R. Srinivasa Varadhan	Courant Institute of Mathematica Sciences, New York University, USA	Random Walks in a Random Environment
February 4 ( Indian Academy of Science Platinum Jubilee Lecture ) Venue: Conference Hall (High Tea after talk at 4:30 PM)	S. R. Srinivasa Varadhan	Courant Institute of Mathematica Sciences, New York University, USA	Homogenization
February 11	Biswaranjan Behera	Department of Mathematics, IIT, Delhi	Invariance of Wavelet Subspaces Under Groups of Translation Operators
February 18	Sivaramakrishnan Sivasubramanian	Department of Mathematics, IIT, Mumbai	Analogs of a Theorem of Graham, Hoffman and Hosoya
February 25	Deepayan Sarkar	Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, USA	Assessing Copy Number Variation Using Genome-Wide Alignments
March 3 Day: Tuesday	Krishna B. Athreya	Iowa State University, USA and IISc, Bangalore	Size Biasing with Applications to Markov Chains and Branching Processes
March 4	Krishna B. Athreya	Iowa State University, USA and IISc, Bangalore	Preferential Attachment Random Graphs
March 11	--	--	No Seminar (Holiday for Holi)
March 18	Geeta	Department of Mathematics, IIT, Delhi	Postage Stamp Problem
March 25	Amites Dasgupta	Theoretical Statistics and Mathematics Unit, ISI, Kolkata	Strong Laws for Balanced Triangular Urns
March 31 Day: Tuesday	Siva Athreya	Theoretical Statistics and Mathematics Unit, ISI, Bangalore	Survival of the Contact Process on the Hierarchical Group
April 8	Rajendra Bhatia	Theoretical Statistics and Mathematics Unit, ISI, Delhi	Lipschitz Continuity of the Operator Absolute Value
April 16 14th PCM Memorial Lecture (Lecture-I) Day: Thursday Venue: Conference Hall (High Tea after talk at 4:30 PM)	Louis H. Y. Chen	Institute for Mathematical Sciences, National University of Singapore, Singapore	Lectures on Stein's Method (Lecture - I)
April 17 14th PCM Memorial Lecture (Lecture-II) Day: Friday Venue: Seminar Room - 2	Louis H. Y. Chen	Institute for Mathematical Sciences, National University of Singapore, Singapore	Lectures on Stein's Method (Lecture II)
April 18 14th PCM Memorial Lecture (Lecture-III) Day: Saturday Venue: Seminar Room - 2 Time: 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM	Louis H. Y. Chen	Institute for Mathematical Sciences, National University of Singapore, Singapore	Lectures on Stein's Method (Lecture III)

The Spring Series will end on April 29, 2009.
The Autumn Series will start from the fourth week of July, 2009.
Please contact Antar Bandyopadhyay if you are interested to give a talk, or want to get the regular notice for the seminars by e-mail.
Click here for the official web-page for the seminars.
Click here for the past and future seminars.
Click here for the direction to reach ISI, Delhi Centre.

Last modified April 20, 2009